MALONE AND HIS BOSWELL.

The article presents information on Edmund Malone, literary critic. Malone is the editor of poet William Shakespeare and scholar, one whose work is most used, who almost always sums up a position soundly, and from whom it is dangerous to differ. Regrettably, his work, left by him incomplete and imperfect, suffered losses and errors in transmission also. The first edition, in ten volumes and published in 1790, is an incomplete and imperfect Malone, embodying his labors at an intermediate stage, but has the advantage that the author prepared the copy for the press and corrected proofs. Embodying a further twenty years' work, the projected second edition was published under the care of author James Boswell, from a copy prepared by him from Malone's papers.